Evaluated articles

Does the seed fall far from the tree? Weak fine-scale genetic structure in a continuous Scots pine population

1. Alina K. Niskanen
2. Sonja T. Kujala
3. Katri Kärkkäinen
4. Outi Savolainen
5. Tanja Pyhäjärvi

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Gene expression is the main driver of purifying selection in large penguin populations

1. Emiliano Trucchi
2. Piergiorgio Massa
3. Francesco Giannelli
4. Thibault Latrille
5. Flavia A. N. Fernandes
6. Lorena Ancona
7. Nils Chr Stenseth
8. Joan Ferrer Obiol
9. Josephine Paris
10. Giorgio Bertorelle
11. Céline Le Bohec

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Interplay between fecundity, sexual and growth selection on the spring phenology of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.).

1. Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio
2. Aurore Bontemps
3. Julie Gauzere
4. Etienne K Klein

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Simultaneous Inference of Past Demography and Selection from the Ancestral Recombination Graph under the Beta Coalescent

1. Kevin Korfmann
2. Thibaut Paul Patrick Sellinger
3. Fabian Freund
4. Matteo Fumagalli
5. Aurélien Tellier

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Rapid life-history evolution reinforces competitive asymmetry between invasive and resident species

1. Elodie Chapuis
2. Philippe Jarne
3. Patrice David

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Exploring the Effects of Ecological Parameters on the Spatial Structure of Genealogies

1. Mariadaria K. Ianni-Ravn
2. Martin Petr
3. Fernando Racimo

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Distinct patterns of genetic variation at low-recombining genomic regions represent haplotype structure

1. Jun Ishigohoka
2. Karen Bascón-Cardozo
3. Andrea Bours
4. Janina Fuß
5. Arang Rhie
6. Jacquelyn Mountcastle
7. Bettina Haase
8. William Chow
9. Joanna Collins
10. Kerstin Howe
11. Marcela Uliano-Silva
12. Olivier Fedrigo
13. Erich D. Jarvis
14. Javier Pérez-Tris
15. Juan Carlos Illera
16. Miriam Liedvogel

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How to survive the mutational meltdown: lessons from plant RNA viruses

1. Guillaume Lafforgue
2. Marie Lefebvre
3. Thierry Michon
4. Santiago F. Elena

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Can mechanistic constraints on recombination reestablishment explain the long-term maintenance of degenerate sex chromosomes?

1. Thomas Lenormand
2. Denis Roze

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Community structure of heritable viruses in a Drosophila-parasitoids complex

1. Julien Varaldi
2. David Lepetit
3. Nelly Burlet
4. Camille Faber
5. Bérénice Baretje
6. Roland Allemand

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Sperm production and allocation in response to risk of sperm competition in the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens

1. Frédéric Manas
2. Carole Labrousse
3. Christophe Bressac

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Genomic relationships among diploid and polyploid species of the genus Ludwigia L. section Jussiaea using a combination of molecular cytogenetic, morphological, and crossing investigations

1. Dominique Barloy
2. Luis Portillo-Lemus
3. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield
4. Virginie Huteau
5. Olivier Coriton

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Genetic sex determination in three closely related hydrothermal vent gastropods, including one species with intersex individuals

1. J Castel
2. F Pradillon
3. V Cueff
4. G Leger
5. C Daguin-Thiébaut
6. S Ruault
7. J Mary
8. S Hourdez
9. D Jollivet
10. T Broquet

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Individual differences in developmental trajectory leave a male polyphenic signature in bulb mite populations

1. Jacques A. Deere
2. Isabel M. Smallegange

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Phenotypic stasis with genetic divergence

1. François Mallard
2. Luke Noble
3. Thiago Guzella
4. Bruno Afonso
5. Charles F. Baer
6. Henrique Teotónio

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Colour polymorphism and conspicuousness do not increase speciation rates in Lacertids

1. Thomas de Solan
2. Barry Sinervo
3. Philippe Geniez
4. Patrice David
5. Pierre-André Crochet

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Random genetic drift sets an upper limit on mRNA splicing accuracy in metazoans

1. Florian Bénitière
2. Anamaria Necsulea
3. Laurent Duret

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  eLife assessment

  This fundamental study evaluates the evolutionary significance of variations in the accuracy of the intron-splicing process across vertebrates and insects. Using a powerful combination of comparative and population genomics approaches, the authors present convincing evidence that higher rates of alternative splicing tend to be observed in species with lower effective population size, a key prediction of the drift-barrier hypothesis. The analysis is carefully conducted and has broad implications beyond the studied species. As such, it will strongly appeal to anyone interested in the evolution of genome architecture and the optimisation of genetic systems.

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Pollen-feeding delays reproductive senescence and maintains toxicity of Heliconius erato

1. Erika C. Pinheiro de Castro
2. Josie McPherson
3. Glennis Jullian
4. Anniina L. K. Mattila
5. Søren Bak
6. Stephen H. Montgomery
7. Chris Jiggins

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes

1. Martin Petr
2. Benjamin C. Haller
3. Peter L. Ralph
4. Fernando Racimo

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Weak seed banks influence the signature and detectability of selective sweeps

1. Kevin Korfmann
2. Diala Abu Awad
3. Aurélien Tellier

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology